Senior Business Analyst

Role overview

Duties

• Work in one or more agile or Scrum delivery teams within the Digital Services and Technology Directorate.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and technical colleagues, including developers and testers, to develop digital solutions.
• Provide teams with documentation and maintain, refine, and prioritise the product backlog.
• Coordinate communications and escalate and facilitate resolution of backlog-related risks, issues, and changes.
• Support and mentor business analysts and participate in professional communities of practice; the role may include line management.

Experience and qualifications

• Experience collaborating with Product Owners and technical colleagues in agile teams to develop and refine requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience using Agile methodologies to deliver digital projects and products, with frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Experience conducting investigations to determine business requirements and specify effective business processes.
• Experience applying and monitoring modelling and analysis tools, methods, and standards.
• Hold the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis or an equivalent such as IIBA CCBA or CBAP, or be prepared to work toward one.

Locations and working pattern

• Advertised locations include Bristol, Swansea, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Oldham (Chadderton), Birmingham (Garretts Green), and Uxbridge.
• For Uxbridge-based applicants, the contractual base is Yeading; work will temporarily begin in Uxbridge while the Yeading site undergoes works, with employees required to work from Yeading when it reopens in 2028.
• The working pattern may be flexible, full-time, job share, or part-time.

Salary and pension

• The advertised salary is £45,900, with a £4,000 London Weighting allowance for candidates based in Yeading or Uxbridge.
• The Civil Service Pension employer contribution is 28.97%.

Benefits

• Benefits include 25 days of annual leave, increasing by one day per year of service up to 30 days, plus eight bank holidays and a privilege day for the King's birthday.
• Flexible working options are offered.